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Lauchheim
Lauchheim is a small town on the River Jagst in the Ostalbkreis district of Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany, about 80 kilometers east of Stuttgart, known for its large excavated early medieval cemetery.
Leipzig
Leipzig, Saxony's largest city, first recorded 1015 as urbs Libzi, a trade-fair, university, and music center. Official population 615,932 (end 2025); 1989 Monday demonstrations helped end the GDR.
Leverkusen
Leverkusen: district-free city in North Rhine-Westphalia between Cologne and Düsseldorf; founded 1930, enlarged 1975; named after Carl Leverkus; Bayer chemical city of about 168,300 inhabitants.
Limburg an der Lahn
Limburg an der Lahn: Hessian district town on the Lahn, first mentioned 910, cathedral consecrated 1235, about 38,200 inhabitants, medieval trade town and ICE-served retail center.
Lippstadt
Lippstadt, a town of about 72,400 in the Soest district, North Rhine-Westphalia, on the Lippe river; founded 1185 by Bernhard II zur Lippe as Westphalia's first planned town, chartered around 1220, Hanseatic 1280–1669, joint-ruled 1445–1851, home of FORVIA HELLA.
Lübeck
Lübeck, the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, is a northern German city founded in 1143, former 'Queen of the Hanse', with a UNESCO-listed old town (1987), Holstentor, seven church towers, and about 220,000 residents.
Ludwigsburg
Ludwigsburg, Große Kreisstadt north of Stuttgart, seat of Landkreis Ludwigsburg; planned ducal residence city founded 1704–18 around Germany's largest baroque palace (18 buildings, 450+ rooms), Blühendes Barock gardens, Filmakademie, and the 1958 Zentrale Stelle for Nazi-crime investigations.
Ludwigshafen
Ludwigshafen am Rhein is a district-free city in Rhineland-Palatinate on the left bank of the Rhine opposite Mannheim, home to BASF's headquarters and the largest integrated chemical complex of a single company; 177,355 residents, city rights 1859.
Lünen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Lünen is a city of about 87,000 in the Unna district, North Rhine-Westphalia, on the Lippe at the Ruhr area's northern edge. A Hanseatic town chartered in 1341, it was a coal-mining city from 1873 to 1992 and is now a recycling and technology center.
Lützelbach
Lützelbach is a municipality in the Odenwaldkreis district of Hesse, Germany, comprising five villages along the Roman Odenwald Limes, with 7,109 residents as of 2024.
Magdeburg
Magdeburg, capital of Saxony-Anhalt on the Elbe, about 244,500 residents (2025), first recorded 805, archbishopric 968, Magdeburg Law, two universities with 18,000+ students.
Mainhardt
Mainhardt is a municipality in the district of Schwäbisch Hall, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, lying in the Mainhardter Wald on the Roman frontier, where a cohort fort of the Cohors I Asturum equitata stood until about 260 AD.
Mainz
Mainz (Magenza), capital of Rhineland-Palatinate on the Rhine with about 224,000 residents; Roman Mogontiacum, ShUM Jewish heritage, Gutenberg's printing city, GDP 24.6 billion euros.
Mannheim
Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg city at the Rhine-Neckar confluence, planned grid city (Quadrate), ~330,000 residents, 17 districts, home of the University of Mannheim in the Baroque Schloss.
Marburg
Marburg (an der Lahn) is a university town in Middle Hesse, Germany, seat of the Philipps-Universität (founded 1527, oldest surviving Protestant university), burial place of Saint Elisabeth, with about 77,000 residents.
Marienfels
Marienfels: village in Verbandsgemeinde Nastätten, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Germany, first recorded 915; site of two Roman wood-earth forts, a vicus, and the first proven temporary camp on the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage property.
Meissen
Meissen (Meißen), Saxony's oldest town on the Elbe near Dresden, birthplace of European porcelain: manufactory founded 1710 in the Albrechtsburg, crossed-swords mark since 1722, wine region, about 29,000 residents.
Mengen
Mengen is a town in Sigmaringen district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, distinct from Mengen in Turkey or Mengeš in Slovenia. Known for the Roman Danube fort on the Ennetacher Berg, its 1276 town charter, and the 2023 Elbgermanic Ziegeleschle excavations.
Merseburg
Merseburg is a town of about 34,500 in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, seat of the Saalekreis. A former Ottonian palatinate and bishopric founded in 968, it is known for Merseburg Cathedral and the Merseburg Incantations.
Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia
Minden is a town of about 84,000 in northeastern North Rhine-Westphalia, seat of Kreis Minden-Lübbecke. First recorded as Minda in 798, a former Hanseatic episcopal town known for the Mittelland Canal's Wasserstraßenkreuz over the Weser and the 1759 Battle of Minden.
Moers
Moers, city in Kreis Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, west of Duisburg on the Lower Rhine; chartered 1300, seat of the Counts of Moers, Prussian from 1702, coal-mining city from 1904, about 101,000-106,000 inhabitants, landmark Moers Castle and Das Geleucht.
Mönchengladbach
Mönchengladbach, formerly München-Gladbach and Gladbach-Rheydt, is a kreisfreie city in North Rhine-Westphalia near Düsseldorf, founded around the 974 abbey of St. Vitus, with about 277,000 residents, 44 Stadtteile, and a textile-industry heritage.
Mülheim-Kärlich
Mülheim-Kärlich, a town in Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, on the Rhine's Neuwied Basin, known for its restored Roman villa rustica (found 1983 in Depot), a 10-kiln Roman pottery center at Am Guten Mann, and prehistoric finds from the Kärlich clay pit.
Mülheim, North Rhine-Westphalia
Mülheim an der Ruhr, kreisfreie Stadt in NRW's Ruhr region, Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf; 91.28 km², about 173,700 residents, 19% foreign nationals; former Ruhr shipping and coal center, mine-free since 1966.
Munich
Munich (München), capital of Bavaria and Germany's third largest city, first recorded in 1158; 1,612,429 residents in 2025, 25 districts, Germany's most expensive city, lowest big-city unemployment, and 6.5 million Oktoberfest guests.
Münster
Münster, Westphalia, Germany: cathedral city founded 793 by Liudger, site of the Anabaptist kingdom (1534/35) and the 1648 Peace of Westphalia; today a university and cycling city of about 320,700 residents.
Murrhardt
Murrhardt (vicus murrensis) is a town in Rems-Murr-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on the Upper German-Rhaetian Limes. It has a 2.2 ha Roman cohort fort of the Cohors XXIV voluntariorum, a fort bath found in 2010, and the Benedictine abbey St. Januarius founded around 817 with first abbot Walterich.
Neckarau
Neckarau, a district of Mannheim, Germany, first documented 871 as Villa Naucravia; Neolithic settlement, a late Roman burgus bridgehead for Altrip, Kurpfalz village, incorporated into Mannheim 1899, about 35,000 residents.
Nersingen
Nersingen is a municipality in the district of Neu-Ulm in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, on the Leibi stream near the Danube, first recorded in 1143 and formed in the 1970s by merging four neighboring villages.
Neu Darchau
Neu Darchau, a municipality in Lüchow-Dannenberg, Lower Saxony, on the left Elbe bank, part of Samtgemeinde Elbtalaue; founded 18th century, merged 1972, about 1,331 residents, ferry to Darchau, planned Elbe bridge.